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RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure
- From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw at agere dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:20:38 -0400
- Subject: RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> IMHO, that was not desirable. Eventually I could imagine X11 and
>> Cygwin native versions of the same package. I liked this method of
>> making the distinction.
>
> What does "Cygwin native" mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX
> environment, then X11 should be the standard for GUI apps.
I won't argue the point (since I'd like to see better X11 support),
but POSIX doesn't necessarily imply X11 support.
However...
What about console apps? When I was still using the X11 version, my
/usr/X11R6/bin/vim linked in X11 libs, although /usr/bin/vim didn't.
That way, vim -g did the right thing.
And from a practical standpoint, notice my wording there. It's true
that various inconveniences and performance issues eventually caused
me to move away from using X for daily Cygwin work, though I used to
use it almost exclusively. Perhaps X11 improvements could draw me
back, but until they do I'd actually prefer a few more Cygwin-aware
GUI apps that don't use X. I wouldn't mind grabbing these apps from
/usr/win32native or whatever, but that doesn't change the fact that
(at least at this point) X11 isn't for everybody.
gsw